Big Dead Place Quotes

“At work, classic rock blared from different radios around the kitchen, and our exposure to the tinny canon of riffs occupied nine hours a day, six days a week. The Galley might as well have been in Nebraska. Stainless steel, hot water, the smells of baking chicken and boiling potatoes and butterscotch, all to a repetitious soundtrack of Foreigner and The Eagles. I often forgot where I was, until I went outside in the cold and wind to dump cardboard or food waste in the dumpsters off the dock.”
― Nicholas Johnson, Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica

“I have never heard one person say that the most difficult thing about Antarctica is working outside or being cold. I have never heard of one returnee who finally quit because it’s the worlds highest driest coldest or whatever. People leave because of the bullshit”
― Nicholas Johnson, Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica